Combined check-rein carrier and blinder-stay



QNo Model.)

F. SGHENKENBERG. COMBINED CHECK RBIN CARRIER AND BLINDER STAY.

No. 347,444. Patented Aug. 111886..

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK SOI-IENKENBERG', OF FORT'ATKINSON, WISCONSIN.

COMBINED CHECK-REIN CARRIER AND BLlNDER-ST AY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 347,444, dated August 17, 1886. Application tiled November 19, 1885. Serial No.183,349. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK SCHENKEN- BERG, of the city of Fort Atkinson, in the county of Jefferson and State of \Visconsin, haveinvented certain new and usefullmprovements in OheclcRein Carriers Combined with Blinder-Stays for Bridles; and I do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form apart of this specification.

Figure 1 represents a side View of my checkrein carrier and blinder-stays attached by.

means of screw E and plate D to the crownstrap A of a bridle. It represents also the stays coupled to the blinders by loops K and check-rein retainers I, h, and a. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of Fig.1, cut longitudinally through the crown-strap A and attachmentplate I), with its pivot E, and represents reincarrier 0 G, secured upon pivot E by screw E. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same, showing plate G attached to wire 0 0, provided with two holes for its adjustment upon the pivot E and one check-rein retainer, 0. Fig. 4 represents a front sectional view of my blinderstays O G, check-rein retainer I, and blinderstay coupling-loop K.

This invention contemplates improvements in the combination of blinder-stays with checkrein carriers for hcadstalls or bridles, both operating together to prevent the blinders from flopping, restoring their position, if by any means displaced, and the check rein from chafing the horses head; and it consists in combining a check-rein carrier with the blinder-stays of a bridle, substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawings, A, Fig. 1, indicates the crown-strap of a bridle, which passes over the top of the horses head. The lower end is provided with holes for the buckling of the bit-straps, to which are attached the blinders L, only a section of which is shown.

B is the usual brow band or strap.

0, C, and 0, Figs. 1 and 4, show the checkrein carrier and blinder-stays combined and atached to the bridle-crown strap A by pivot E, and to the blinders by a common leather loop.

O, O, and O is made of one wire, which forms the main part of the rein-carrier and blinderstays, and is shaped as follows: First bend the middle of the wire into the form of'a staple with parallel sides. Then bend the lower ends, 0, outward, then downward, as in Fig. 4. Form a loop, J, upon each end of C, as in Fig. 1. Then bend both wires 0 O laterally, as at e and H in Fig. 1, shaping it to conform to the shape of the horses head. The wires 0 G are bound together by three metal plates, which are slit in their opposite edges, so that parts 6 e, H H, and G are bent downward and wrapped about each wire 0, binding them together, while one piece, I h a, each side of the plates, are turned upward to a right angle, then turned inward to a right angle, nearly meeting each other at the top, Figs. 2 and 4. Thus three loops are formed to receive the check-rein B, which guides and carries it above the horses head, Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4. Upon thecenter of plate D (which is secured to crown-strap A) is a pivotal-shapedv projection, E, in the topof which is set-screw E, Figs. 1, 2, and 3. Plate G, which is a part of the rein carrier, is. provided with two holes through it, one of which is adjusted upon the pivot E and secured by screw E, so as to form a hinge-joint and allow the blinder-stays and check-carrier to swing laterally upon pivot E, by which means, with the check-rein, the right position of the blinders will be maintained, as

fully described hereinafter. If desired, more holes may be provided in plate G for the adjustment of the carrier to suit the different size of bridles.

The check-rein used is'of the common style, which passes single over the head to a point near the middle of the face of the horse, where it divides, one strap passing down each side to the bit-rings, in which position they hold the check -rein comparatively stationary where the two unite with the single rein. Another stationary point that holds the check-rein in line is loop a, near the stationary pivot E. Now, it will be observed that the blinder-stays and check rein are connected by the guideloops I and h, as described, in a straight line with the tension of the check-rein, and-when either of them is moved out of or into position it moves the other also, and by this means the check-rein,wl1en in use,wil1 be drawn into stays G 0, provided with the retaining-loops line, and thereby will always govern the position of the blinders.

I understand that check-rein carriers for a single rein to pass over a horses head, and a carrier being pivoted to the crown-strap, are not new, and therefore do not claim such, broadly, as my invention; but,

\Vhat I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1's

1. In bridles, the combined check-rein carrier and blinder-stays made of a single piece ofwire bent to form the carrier 0 G and blinderl a, h, and I, constructed and operating together, substantially as and for the purpose specified. 2. In combination with the headstall of a bridle, the rein-carrier O C, with the retainingloops a, h, and I, blindcr-stays O O, secured flexibly to the crown-strap A, all working together, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

FREDERICK SGHENKENBERG. \Vitnesses:

H. A. PORTER, THOMAS CRANE. 

